Mizan R. Khan, J. Timmons Roberts
Abstract Because of the failure of the world to agree an adequate regime to limit greenhouse gas emissions to a safe level, adaptation to climate change has risen rapidly in UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations since 2007. We closely review the development of policies, ins...
Tim Coelli, Sanzidur Rahman, Colin Thirtle
Abstract This paper applies a stochastic production frontier model to measure total factor productivity growth, technical efficiency change and technological change in Bangladesh crop agriculture for the 31 observations from 1960/61 to 1991/92, using data for 16 regions. The results reveal that tech...
Kristina M. Gjerde, Lora L. Nordtvedt Reeve, Harriet Harden‐Davies, Jeff Ardron et al.
Abstract Marine areas beyond national jurisdiction (ABNJ) comprise most of Earth's interconnected ocean, hosting complex ecosystems that play key roles in sustaining life and providing important goods and services. Although ABNJ encompass nearly half the planet's surface, biological diversity found ...
Shie‐Yui Liong, Wee-Han Lim, Toshiharu Kojiri, Tomoharu Hori
An artificial Neural Network (NN) was successfully applied, in an earlier study, as a prediction tool to forecast water level at Dhaka (Bangladesh), for up to seven lead days in advance, with a high accuracy level. In addition, this high accuracy degree was accompanied with a very short computationa...
Art Dewulf, Timothy Karpouzoglou, Jeroen Warner, Anna Wesselink et al.
Abstract Since the early work on defining and analyzing resilience in domains such as engineering, ecology and psychology, the concept has gained significant traction in many fields of research and practice. It has also become a very powerful justification for various policy goals in the water secto...
Mario Maj
This report summarizes the main activities conducted by the WPA in implementation of its Action Plan 2008–2011, approved by the General Assembly in September 2008 1,2. WPA Member Societies have participated in the WPA-World Health Organization (WHO) Global Survey of Psychiatrists’ Attitudes Towards ...
Kelvin Balcombe, Iain Fraser, Mizanur Rahman, Laurence Smith
Abstract Despite record national output in the early years of this decade there is widespread concern that rice yields in Bangladesh are below those attainable, and that given future population growth this may constrain achievement of food security and poverty reduction objectives. A frequent respon...
Maitreyi Mazumdar
BACKGROUND: Neural tube defects are debilitating birth defects that occur when the developing neural plate fails to close in early gestation. Arsenic induces neural tube defects in animal models, but whether environmental arsenic exposure increases risk of neural tube defects in humans is unknown. M...
Carolina V. Zuccotti, Lucinda Platt
Abstract The impact of neighbourhood ethnic concentration on ethnic minorities' outcomes is a contested topic, with mixed empirical results. In this paper, we use a large‐scale longitudinal dataset of England and Wales, covering a 40‐year period, to assess the impact of neighbourhood co‐ethnic conce...
Amy Downing Meisner, John R. Burns
Gravid ovaries were examined histologically from two species of Nomorhamphus and 21 populations of Dermogenys. In addition, changes in dry-weight throughout gestation are provided for 15 populations. The ovaries are paired organs running along the lateral body wall and are separated along most of th...
Mohammad Abdul Kader, Kimihito Nakamura, Masateru Senge, M. A. Mojid et al.
Abstract Soil thermal regime, a crucial factor in plant growth and development, is influenced by the colour of plastic mulch. The effects of black plastic mulch (BPM), silver plastic mulch (SPM), transparent plastic mulch (TPM) and bare soil on the soil temperature regime as well as on the growth an...
Magda Tsaneva
Abstract Bangladesh has one of the world's highest child marriage rates. It is also one of the countries most vulnerable to climate change. This paper studies the effect of climate variability on child marriage using data from five waves of the Demographic and Health Surveys. I find that a higher nu...
Debapriya Bhattacharya, Shouro Dasgupta
Abstract It is often argued that strong macroeconomic fundamentals along with weak integration with international financial markets acted as major buffers for least developed countries (LDCs) against fallouts of the recent global financial and economic crisis. This paper examines the hypothesis that...
A. K. F. Haque, M.S.I. Sarker, M. Atiqur R. Patoary, M. Shahjahan et al.
Abstract A simple modification of the revised Deutsch–Märk model (RDM) [Deutsch et al., Int J Mass Spectrom 2004, 233, 13] incorporating both the ionic and relativistic corrections is proposed to investigate the K ‐shell ionization of 30 atomic targets with atomic numbers Z = 1–92 for incident energ...
Fatimah S. Dawood, Alicia M. Fry, Doli Goswami, Amina Tahia Sharmeen et al.
BACKGROUND: Early childhood wheezing substantially impacts quality of life in high-income countries, but data are sparse on early childhood wheezing in low-income countries. We estimate wheezing incidence, describe wheezing phenotypes, and explore the contribution of respiratory viral illnesses amon...